March 27, 2012, 5:45AM

If the true intent of the Legislature and Gov. Robert Bentley was to make sure Alabama jobs were reserved for Alabama people and legal residents, they went about it the wrong way when enacting HB 56 last year. Full story »

December 01, 2011, 5:44AM

One shouldn't blame state Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur, for wishing the state's mean-spirited immigration law is responsible for Alabama's sharp decline in unemployment for October. The rate fell from 9.8 percent in September to 9.3 percent in October, and Hammon, the House majority leader and primary co-sponsor of HB56, latched onto the immigration law as the reason for the... Full story »

August 29, 2011, 8:13AM

Complaints about Alabama’s new immigration law from revenue officials in Mobile and Baldwin counties are a sign of laziness, according to the bill’s sponsor, state. Rep. Micky Hammon, R-Decatur. ... That and more inside Alabama politics news in today's Political Skinny column Full story »

August 15, 2011, 10:32AM

Dan and Terri Mattle's oldest son, Tad, was stopped in traffic when Felix Dominguez Ortega, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, slammed into the back of Tad's car at 70 miles an hour. Tad and his girlfriend, Leigh Anna Jimmerson, both died in the April 17, 2009, wreck. Full story »

June 10, 2011, 7:24PM

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Alabama schools Superintendent Joe Morton says his staff is developing guidelines to share with local principals and teachers on what they need to do to comply with a tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Full story »

March 08, 2011, 4:03PM

Use of E-Verify may be one of the very few measures that offers the state some practical way to discourage illegal immigration in a bill now pending in the Alabama Legislature.. But some other parts of the bill raise practical and legal issues. Full story »

November 02, 2010, 11:17PM

Democratic incumbent Kristi Valls, who was elected in 2006 as the district attorney in the 39th Judicial Circuit, will not be seeking her second full six-year term after losing Tuesday night to republican candidate and Athens attorney Brian C.T. Jones by 2 percent. Full story »